Ken Thompson's 75 year project: A century of popular music in a jukebox [video]

Post by ilyt » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 7:00 PM UTC

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Insecurity through obscurity is possible even in open source. See log4j, but there are other examples — and infinite proof of concepts of people breaching repositories. Even on the desktop, you want multiple layers of security to limit potential damage. Do use Linux on the desktop and be happy if it makes you happy, but don’t smugly assume you’re immune to the outside pressures in today’s world that are causing Apple…

Well yes but Linux has had solutions for this a long time. AppArmor, SELinux. Some distros like RHEL already bundle apps with profiles that make sure the app can only do what it's supposed to do.

Post by unethical_ban » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 7:10 PM UTC

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By whatever mechanism the OS has to verify that you have the privilege. E.g. sudo. Not by raising a plethora of hurdles.

An admin password prompt is hardly a deterrence to people doing stupid things. A young physics PhD friend of mine fell victim to a tech support scam, happily installing whatever spyware “Apple Support” told her to install over phone. That was a few years ago. The average person is too easily social engineered into allowing anything.

Post by milgra » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 7:11 PM UTC

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I don't know the exact issues but might be related to the issues why I left Apple : I was developing a very successful little tool for MacOS ( https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder ) which listened for keypresses. From 2016 to 2019 it became harder and harder to install it because apple added more and more restrictions to apps like this. By 2019, you had to enable the application explicitly to listen for eve…

using Second Reality as the music for the swayos video was a pleasant surprise

Post by prophesi » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 7:12 PM UTC

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I can understand distributions not having optimal settings for every laptop under the sun, but it seems like a no-brainer to at least create a repository of power config profiles for different models that users can submit to, eventually creating a decent library that could then be integrated into the settings app or and first run wizard.

Whilst not strictly for power settings, NixOS has a repository where users can contribute general optimized settings for their hardware. https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware

Post by em-bee » Sun, Mar 19, 2023, 7:15 PM UTC

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"Random third party binaries" are not something Linux users really use, generally. Most of it is open source and comes through the repository.

Yeah, because I definitely double check the provenance of the 30 dependencies that blow past my terminal when I apt install something, that I also very much looked into and aren’t blindly typing commands from Stack Overflow into my terminal because I’m trying to solve some problem.